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Skip's Rocky 9 i686 experiment
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Background
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Simple project, simple goal: Get Rocky 9 latest booting and working on i686 (32 bit) hardware. Why? Because we can. And it's fun!
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Almost everything we need is already present in the distro. The Rocky project needs to build the vast majority of itself as i686 anyway, to satisfy multilib requirements.
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Fortunately thanks to excellent publication and repo management, an almost-complete i686 distro is ready-published in the "devel" repository: https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/devel/i686/
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It won't have everything (Lots of GUI programs like Firefox are missing), but certainly enough to make a functional system
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Only one (big) piece is missing: the kernel. The RHEL/Rocky kernel build is unsuitable for this, having patches on top of patches with a tricky build process.
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Fortunately, there is a much cleaner kernel RPM courtesy of ELRepo (elrepo.org). A set of i686 kernel RPMS was built from the kernel-lt 6.1.x base in short order, and they seem to work!
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Combining these i686 kernel RPMs with the Rocky 9 devel/ i686 repository gives everything you need for a bootable system. Kickstart and livemedia-creator means a rudimentary image is currently prototyped and available.
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Where to Download
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QCow2 image: https://skiprocky.linuxdn.org/Rocky9_i686/
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DNF i686 kernel repo: https://skiprocky.linuxdn.org/Rocky9_i686/kernel_repo/
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Kickstart + scripts for image create: https://git.resf.org/skip/rocky-i686
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kernel sources (elrepo fork): https://git.resf.org/skip/kernel-lt
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Rocky 9 i686 devel (userspace packages): https://dl.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/devel/i686/
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Image Info
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Login:
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root : Rockyi686Test
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Recommend you change it.
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Cloud-init:
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Is available and setup by default. If you have means of triggering it, additional users/auth methods could be set up upon boot
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Write disk to physical drive or USB:
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qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O raw rocky9_i686.qcow2 /dev/sdb
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(IMPORTANT: make sure "/dev/sdb" is your target device! Don't overwrite your main system's drive!)
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Expand disk to fill hard drive:
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growpart /dev/sda 2
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resize2fs /dev/sda2
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(This assumes "/dev/sda" is the drive in the installed system. It could be different - check with blkid)
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Building the image:
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Run ./rocky9_i686_build.sh with administrator privileges. You will need to update the script - point to a valid Rocky 9 boot iso (stock iso is fine).
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You also need qemu-kvm and livemedia-creator (lorax) installed
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